Dreamy watercolors, the New Butterfly Wreath and glitter...maybe spring and summer are on their way! Jean Okimoto here with another wishing-for-some sunshine card. It's a beautiful here in Seattle right now - that's inspired me to create another butterfly design, and hope it'll be sunny for a while.
Starting off as we did for the previous card...
Spritz a light layer of water onto watercolor paper. Keeping the colors separate - completely ink a 4" soft rubber brayer with Kaleidacolor Riviera - then roll the diluted inks onto the watercolor paper. Let the colors mix and mingle for a while, then dry the inks with a heat-tool.
Diecut it with Butterfly Wreath - but don't remove the paper from the die. Cover a 4" square of white cardstock with Scor-Tape. Cut it with the 3.2" and 1.2" Stitched Circle Layers - it'll look like a white doughnut. The stitching won't appear on the finished card, but those dimensions worked for this design.
Press the diecut (still in the die) onto the adhesive-covered circle. Use a piercing tool to push the diecut out and onto the adhesive circle. Carefully remove the die. Brush iridescent glitter onto the exposed adhesive.
Now it gets obsessive here. Add dimension to the wreath by carefully lifting the outer edges of the delicate wing outlines. Lift alternating "inside" wings too. Brush more glitter under the raised wings, and along the outer edges under the wing outlines. The additional application of glitter covers the adhesive there - and keeps the outlines and alternating wings from sticking to the background.
Attach Scor-Tape behind gold mirror cardstock and diecut the antennae and attach them to alternating butterflies. They're on a removable section of the die and will cut 6 antennae at once.
Stamp Kindness of People on pale green cardstock with Radiant Neon Electric Blue and emboss it with detail clear powder. Diecut it with the 2" Stitched Square Layer.
Attach everything to a 4-⅝" x 6-¼" card of white cardstock. Attach pale gold sequins.
Thanks a bunch for stopping by - hope you love Memory Box butterflies as much as I do! Join us again tomorrow for another beautiful design from Sherry Hester.
